India 51 for 0 (Gill 27*, Kishan 23*) beat Sri Lanka 50 (Siraj 6-21, Pandya 3-3) by 10 wickets
In overcast circumstances, Siraj bought the brand new ball to maneuver round and picked up 6 for 21, the fourth-best ODI figures for India. He took simply 16 balls for his first 5 wickets – the joint-fastest five-for in ODIs (the place ESPNcricinfo has the information recorded) alongside Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas and USA’s Ali Khan.
In consequence, Sri Lanka had been all out for a mere 50, their second-lowest ODI complete. Their innings lasted simply 15.2 overs, the fifth-shortest total. In response, Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan, opening the innings rather than Rohit Sharma, took simply 6.1 overs to finish the formalities.
After dropping the toss, Rohit Sharma stated that he too had wished to bat first on what he known as “a dry wicket”. However ten minutes earlier than the scheduled begin, it began raining. Maybe that modified the entire scenario.
When the match lastly began after a delay of 40 minutes, Jasprit Bumrah bought the ball to maneuver in each instructions. Together with his third supply, he had Kusal Perera caught behind. Sri Lanka had been in for a good ruder shock from the opposite finish.
Siraj began with a maiden, beating Kusal Mendis’ exterior edge 4 occasions within the over. In his subsequent, he had 4 wickets. Pathum Nissanka was the primary to depart, pushing a size supply uppishly in direction of backward level, the place Ravindra Jadeja dived low to his proper to pouch it with each arms.
